Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard new base-10 hard drive size calculating method explained

[Fahad]

hey guys one of the new things in snow leopard is that now it calculate the capacity of the hard drive on base 10, what does that mean? well it mean that it will read correct space in you hard drive, so for example if you got a 250 gigabyte hard drive it would read it as 250 gigabyte, hope this information help you.

[Thomas]

Wait i dont understand i thought the actual harddrive size should be 232 gb, how can they make it say 250 when its 232?!?

[Fahad]

Wait i dont understand i thought the actual harddrive size should be 232 gb, how can they make it say 250 when its 232?!?

your info is wrong the hard drive is 250 gigabyte, it's the OS that used (and still in windows ) to limit it to 232.

[Thomas]

your info is wrong the hard drive is 250 gigabyte, it's the OS that used (and still in windows ) to limit it to 232.

Really i thought the harddrive itself is only 232gb :\

[DoFoT9]

your info is wrong the hard drive is 250 gigabyte, it's the OS that used (and still in windows ) to limit it to 232.

Really i thought the harddrive itself is only 232gb :\

im sorry fahad, but Thomas is right. if you have a 500Gb hard drive you will only have 465.8GB of data to write to.

im not particularly happy about this.

[marc]

Ok, I'm gunna say what is probably on a few peoples minds.

If you really want to make this site work Fahad you will have to refrain from making tutorials and stuff about things you clearly don't understand properly. It just makes you as an individual seem silly and really doesn't help the credibility of your other tutorials if people find this site via tutorials like this. 99% of the content on this site is fantastic so don't ruin it with stuff like this.

Stick to making tutorials about stuff you know about like you have been doing and you can't go wrong

I'm not trying to be rude or insulting, but this is my advice and its definitely worth having a think about

[Fahad]

ok i feel stupid now ROFL the bad thing is the files are bigger so yeah I think in total it will have the same results.

but what I said is correct I said " if you got 250 gigabyte hard disk it will read it 250 gigabyte"

[DoFoT9]

marc has the right idealogy - to attract more people/appear more professional we should address the important issues and be accurate with what we are saying.

however, i cant fault your "if you have 250GB then its read as 250GB", thats like saying A=A. lol

[Fahad]

marc has the right idealogy - to attract more people/appear more professional we should address the important issues and be accurate with what we are saying.

however, i cant fault your "if you have 250GB then its read as 250GB", thats like saying A=A. lol

yeah I will be more careful in future

[Thomas]

Yeah i was told it had to do something with binary code and junk like that, and not actually being able to be that exact number.